Tonbridge Grammar School in Kent, has recently slashed their waste disposal costs, whilst improving their recycling rates, by installing a waste compactor, and cardboard baler from Orwak Environmental Services.
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Orwak is celebrating 40 years of trading. The globally renowned brand has been supplying quality waste handling equipment for decades.
Ancove, the Irish supplier of Orwak equipment, and PHS Wastekit's sister company and also part of the PHS Group, were recently shortlisted for two categories at the Irish Field Service Awards.
PHS Wastekit, the UK’s leading supplier of waste balers and compactors, has launched its new service contract options for the servicing and maintenance of waste handling equipment.
Orwak, the UK's leading waste handling equipment provider, has introduced a new mini waste baler to its range of high quality waste equipment.
The Environment Agency reported this week that a fine of £261,278 was handed out to the Red Bull Company Limited after it failed to register as a Packaging waste producer and to fulfil their requirement to recover and recycle packaging waste.
The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (“Defra”) has recently issued its new strategy designed to improve the sustainability of retail packaging. ‘Making the most of packaging: A strategy for a low-carbon economy’ sets out the Government’s plan to halt the continuing growth in packaging waste, which has increased by 1-2 % every year in the last ten years.
Alistair Darling announced in the "world's first Carbon Budget" that the Landfill Tax escalator would continue after 2011. The announcement on 22nd April clarified that Landfill Tax will rise by £8 per tonne on April 1st each year, until 2013. The Government's aim is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 0.7mt each year.
With the economic downturn being felt in all industries and all areas, the need to cut costs and manage your resources more effectively is more important than ever, says Martin Hewitt, commercial director for PHS Orwak.
April 1st may have brought with it the latest 25% increase in Landfill Tax but don't despair; Orwak, the UK's leading supplier of compactors and balers, can help you to fight these increases and save you money on your waste.
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